The Chamber Works For YOU!


Your Investment includes:


THE leading voice working for you to oppose the relocation of GTMO detainees to our community;


  • Members-only referrals via phone, in-person, and chamber website;
  • Members-only business directory distributed for business-to-business use, as well as all incoming CGSC students;
  • Members-only online-directory with free link to members’ website;
  • Monthly “Chamber Coffees” to network and promote your business;
  • Regular educational/networking events such as Business After Hours and educational seminars such as “Spooked by the Economy”  and “Speed Networking”;
  • Access to weekly Chamber E-newsletter – the latest information in the business community;
  • Opportunity to promote your business’ successes, awards, recognitions through “Members in the News” section of the E-newsletter distributed to members each week;
  • Chamber member preferred pricing at chamber events;
  • Cost-effective advertising opportunities available through business directory; website; newsletter; and e-newsletter;
  • Members Only complimentary use of chamber meeting room facilities;
  • Members Only opportunity to display marketing materials in chamber office;
  • Members Only opportunity to reach hundreds of contacts with inserts in the monthly printed newsletter;
  • Members Only access to Chamber mailing lists and labels;
  • Members Only complimentary ribbon cuttings to celebrate your new business, expansion/relocation and key anniversaries –with photos appearing in the Leavenworth Times newspaper;
  • Provides regular legislative updates allowing members access to members of the state legislative delegation;
  • Actively works to assist local businesses expand and to attract new businesses and jobs into our area; has provided assistance to businesses that have created hundreds of new jobs and millions of dollars of capital investment to our local tax base.
  • Sponsors and coordinates programs, seminars and workshops for members on diverse subjects important to business, e.g. marketing, business plan development, cash flow controls, and shoplifting prevention.
  • Annually conducts the Leadership Leavenworth-Lansing Program, designed to promote and develop new community leaders. The program has over 200 graduates. This program is a great way to meet fellow business people, and to develop your organization’s key leaders;
  • Aggressively represents the interests of our members as necessary, to include at municipal, county, state, and federal government levels. Studies legislation and lobbies on behalf of our members; testifies before legislative committees on bills that impact our members;
  • Acts as liaison between the business community and government, social service agencies, schools, and other organizations that are essential to the quality of life of our community;
  • Develops and conducts programs designed to market our area nationally for tourism, conferences and conventions, to include direct assistance to such groups;
  • Conducts public candidate forums, including taping and broadcasting these events on local cable TV as a public information service;
  • Coordinates "Operation International" sponsorship of the international officers attending Fort Leavenworth.  This program is a cultural exchange for our members and the greater community and serves a vital role in creating a better understanding with our international neighbors;
  • Co-sponsor, with our Women's Division, the Athena Award to the Business Woman of the Year, and assists the Women's Division with several of its programs; and
  • Opportunity to participate on councils and committees that allow one to ‘make a difference’ while at the same time expanding one’s contacts.